Cost-accounting machine



April 1930- J.-W. MARDER 1,755,449

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Patented Apr. 22, 1930 UNITED STATES JOHN W. MARIDER, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK COST-ACCOUNTING MACHINE Application filed May 2,

The present invention relates to a cost accounting machine and an object of the invention is to provide a machine which will make it possible to obtain a daily record of the productive and non-productive work of workmen. A further object of the invention is to provide a machine which will make a record upon a single sheet of the work, both productive and non-productive, of a number of different workmen, giving approximately the time when any given work is started by any given workmen and the time when the work is completed, provision also preferably being made for making a record of the quantity of the work. A still further object of the invention is to combine a printing mechanism, and

a record holder which advances step by step by a timing mechanism, one of said elements being shiftable at will, so as to cause the printing mechanism to operate at different points on a line transversely of the line of movement of the record holder by the timing mechanism, in order that the printing mechanism may print in different positions on the record for diiferent workmen. Still another object of the invention is to provide a construction in which the printing mechanism will print a record of the productive work in one color and.

a record of the non-productive work in another color, in order that the cost clerk may readily distinguish between the two.

To these and other ends, the invention consists of certain parts and combinations of parts, all of which willbe hereinafter described: the novel features being pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a plan View of a machine embodying this invention;

Fig. 2 is a front View with a part of the casing of the printing mechanism removed Fig. 3 is an end view of the machine;

Fig. 4 is a detail View showing the advancing pawl in cooperation with the ratchet of the record holder;

Fig. 5 is a detail View showing the back spacing pawl in cooperation with the ratchet wheel of the drum;

Fig. 6 is a detail view showing the advancing pawl and the back spacing pawl thrown 1924. Serial No. 710,580.

into positions which will permit the record holder to be rotated independently of the timing mechanism;

Fig. 7 is an enlarged transverse section on the line 77,Fig. 1; V 1

Fig. 8 is a front view of the printing mechanism removed from the machine;

Fig. 9 is a section on the line 99, Fig. 8;

Fig. 10 is a sect-ion on the line 1010, Fig. 8;

Fig. 11 is a section on the line 11-11, Fig. 8, showing in one position the printing wheel that shifts the inking mechanism;

Fig. 12 is a similar view showing the printing member shifted to another position;

Fig. 13 is a plan view of the record sheet used in the machine;

Fig. 14 is an enlarged section on the line 14-14, Fig. 1;

Fig. 15 is a detail view of the guide;

Fig. 16 is a detail perspective view of the ribbon reversing mechanism, and

Fig. 17 is a detail view of a yielding stop.

In the illustrated embodiment of the invention there is provided a record holder and a printing mechanism, the record holder being advanced step by step by a timing mechanism and the printing member being shiftable at will transversely of the line of movement of the record holder, so as to operate on 80 different portions of a record sheet on the record holder assigned to diiferent workmen. It is apparent, however, that the invention is not limited to this arrangement and that it contemplates in one aspect, the movement ofthe record holder by the timing mechanism and the movement of one of said elements at will transversely of the first line of movement.

The record holder, in this instance, comprises a rotary drum or cylinder, covered with a sheet of rubber 2 and forming a platen. This roller or cylinder is secured to a shaft 3 which is journalled within a housing 4, the latter being open at its front at 5 and having a longitudinally extending opening 6 at its top closed by a cover 7 hinged at 8.

Secured to the record holder is a record or sheet 9. This sheet has transverse division lines 10 and longitudinal division lines 11.

The transverse division lines provide transversely extending columns having characters 12 indicating certain hours of the day as, in this instance, 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. It is apparent, however, that the other hours may be selected, as when a working day consists of greater or fewer hours than the hours mentioned or when the working day is divided into two or more shifts. The spaces between the lines 11 are provided with characters 13 or other matter representing different workmen. This sheet is passed about the drum and has its opposite edges secured by a retaining plate 14 held in position by screws 15 passed through the plate and into the drum.

The timing mechanism embodies a clock 16 of any desired construction. To the minute hand of this clock a cam member 17 is connected. the shaft 3 of the drum and is provided with projecting cams 18 which, in this instance, are

ten in number, the cam making one complete rotation every'hour. Secured against turning on the shaft '3 is a ratchet wheel 19. The teeth on this ratchet wheel are one hundred in number, being ten for every hour. For cooperating with the toothed wheel or ratchet 19 an advancing pawl 20 is provided. This pawl is pivoted at 21 to an operating lever 22 which in turn is pivoted at 23 to the housing 4:. The operating lever 22 carries a cam projection 24 lying in the path of the camming projections 18 on the cam 17. A spring 25 holds the cam projection 24 in the path of the cam projection 18, whereas a helical spr'i11g2'6 anchored at 27 to the housing and at 28 to the advancing pawl 20 holds said advancing pawl in cooperation with the ratchet teeth of the ratchet wheel 19, as shown in Fig. 1, or out of cooperation as shown in Fig. 6. Upon the rotation of the cam 17 clockwise, as illustrated in Figs. 4, 5 and 6, the camming projection 18 will engage the camming projections 2 1 and shift the operating lever 22 on its pivot 23 against the action of the spring 25. This will shift the advancing pawl 20 to cause the latter to turn the ratchet wheel 19 one tooth. The camming projections 18 are spaced apart so that they operate the operating lever 22 to advance the drum one step every siX minutes so as to cover the space between two lines 10 every hour.

For reasons which will be hereinafter set forth, it is desirable to back space the drum, and with this end in view a back spacing pawl 29 is formed rigidly with the advancing pawl 20 and an arm 30 is provided rigid with both pawls so that the adva cing pawl 20 may be thrown out of ei'igagement with the toothed wheel 19, whereas th'e back spacing pawl may be thrown into such engagement as illustrated in Fig.5, shifting the wheel 19 first batch wards one tooth and then returning said ratchet wheel to its original position under the action of spring 26, the operating arm 30 This cam member turns loosely onbeing brought into engagement with the stop 31 to limit the movement of the back spacing pawl. To the end that the rotary drum may be moved independently of the timing mechanism, the advancing pawl 20 and the bacl; spacing pawl 29 have a still further movement to the position shown in Fig. 6 in which position the back spacing pawl 29 will permit the toothed wheel and the drum to rotate in either direction. This action is accomplished by permitting the stop 31 to yield under the action of a spring as shown in Fig. 17.

The printing mechanism, one embodiment of which will be described in detail hereafter, is, in this instance, shiftable in the direction of the axis of the drumso as to print in any one of the divisions 13 depending on the workmen, each workman being assigned a number, workman No. 1 shif ing the printing mechk anism to print in column 1, workman No. 2 shifting the printing mechanism to print in column 2, and so on. In order to effect the shifting, there is provided a guide bar 32 'which is journalled in the side pieces of the frame 1 to turn thereon and which has the printing mechanism slidable to different positions along the printing platen or drum the printing frame 35 being secured'to the guide bar 32 to turn therewith. In this in stance, the printing mechanism is controlled by a yoke 33, the arms of which are provided with openings whose walls turn on bearings 34% on the printing frame 35. This yoke has an operating handle 36 and also a locking device in the form of a projection 37 adapted to-enter anyone of the notches 38 formed in a locking bar 39 arranged on the frame of the machine to one side of the guide bar 32 so that the printing mechanism may be held against ac cidental lateral shifting when it has b .en adjusted to the proper column while at the same time, acting to point out to the workmen the proper position for the printing mechanism. With the end in view of effecting the move ment of theprinting mechanism toward the platen or roller, means is provided which, in this instance, turns the guide bar 32. In-thc illustrated embodiment, this means comprises a lever 4-0 pivoted at 41 to the frame of the machine and in turn pivoted at 42 to a lever 43 which is pivoted at 4A to the frame of the machine. Thelever 43 has an arm 4-5 with a lateral projection 16 which works in a slot 47 formed in an arm 18 projected from the rock ing guide 32. A spring 49 secured to the frame of the machine at 50 and to the end of thearm 43 tends normally to hold the guide 32 in such a position that the printing mechanism will lie away from the platen.

The printing mechanism, in this instance, embodies seven type wheels 51, 52, 53, 5-1, 55, 56 and 57, each having an operating handle 65 and all mounted to turn upon a: shaft 58 which is held against turning on the frame 60 of one to nine and zero.

the centering notches 61 35.. Each of said type wheels 51 to 56, in-' clusive, has on its periphery type 59 for printing 1 to 9 and zero, and indicating matter Each of said type wheels further has on its periphery a series of centering notches 61. For cooperation with the type wheels 51 to 56, a plurality of centering dogs 62 is provided one for each type wheel, each centering dog being pivoted at 63 to the frame 35 and having a spring 64 connected to one end thereof and to the frame 35 and holding the nose 65 of the dog toward The other type wheel 57 has type characters 59 of one to nine, a type character 59 in the form of the letter M and indicating characters 60. This type wheel also differs from the type wheels 51 to 56, inclusive, by having two kinds of notches alternately arranged, one indicated at 61 and the other at 61 thenotches 61 being deeper than the notches 61 Cooper ating with the walls of these notches is a centering dog 62 pivoted at 63 andheld toward the notches by a spring 6%. It is apparent that the centering dog 62 will move inwardly a greater distance when the nose 65 thereof enters the notch 61, than when it enters the notch 61 The purpose of this movement of the pawl is to control the inking mechanism so that the printing mechanism will print in a different color, when printing even numbers than when printing odd numbers.

The inking mechanism, in this instance, embodies a bichrome ribbon having, in this instance, a black inking portion 66 and a red inking portion 67. This ribbon is supported on two spools 68 and 69 which turn freely upon extensions of the shaft 58. Each spool has a ratchet wheel 70 secured thereto to turn therewith, the spool having preferably a disk 71 rigid therewith and provided with a pin or projection 72, Fig. 8, extending into an opening 73 in the ratchet wheel.

Between the two spools the ribbon passes over a guide. This guide is in the form of a plate 74:, Fig. 15, formed with a central opening 75 and having on opposite sides of said opening converging guide slot-s 76 and also horizontal guide slots 77 below said converging slots. The ribbon from each spool passes through a slot 77 ythen through a converging slot 76 and then across the space 75 in front of the printing wheels. The guide plate 74 has near its lower end laterally turned portions 7 8 which are provided on their inner faces with'guide ribs 79, Figs. 11 and 12, gulded in grooves in the outer faces of the frame 35, thereby permitting the ribbon guide plate to move vertically on the frame of the printing mechanism. This vertical movement is controlled through the lever 62, the spring 6 1 of which normally holds the guide plate in its uppermost po-- sition, where the printing mechanism will acted upon by the printing mechanism.

print through. the black inking'portion 66, but when the nose 65 enters the notch 61, the ribbon guide 642 will be lowered, throwing the red inking portion in position to be 80. Each of these pawls is pivoted at 81 on the end of a swinging arm 82 journalled on the shaft 58. A frame 83 pivoted at 81 and also at 84- to the swinging yoke 33 provides a connection between the yoke and the pawl whereby, upon the upward movement of the yoke in order to effect the shifting of the printing mechanism, motion will be communicated to one of the ribbon spools for shifting the ribbon prior to the positioning of the printing mechanism.

Only one of these pawls operates on the shifting of the yoke, as one effects the shifting of the inking ribbon in one direction while the other efiects the shifting of the inking ribbon in the other direction. To the end that the pawl 80 which is effecting the shifting of the inking of the printing ribbon may be thrown out of cooperation when the spools on which the ribbon is being wound when the latter is' full and the pawl for effecting the movement of the ribbon in the other direction thrown into cooperation with the spool from which the ribbon has been unwound, there is provided a ribbon reversing mechanism comprising two guide pins 85 each extending later ally from one of two arms 86 pivoted at 87 to opposite sides of the frame 35 and pivotally connected at 88 to two links 89, thetwo links 89 being pivoted at 90 to a double arm lever 91 which in turn is pivoted at 92 to the frame 35. The ribbon after leaving the spools 68 and 69 passes under the guide pins 85 and after the spools become unwound that ribbon adjacent the guide 74 leading from the spool which is nearly unwound lies in a higher plane than the one which is full so that'the tension of the ribbonadjacent the empty spool after the end of the ribbon is reached lifts upwardly on the adjacent guide 85 throwing the other end of theleverdownwardly and, through the lever 91, throwing the other end of the lever 85 upwardly. The levers 86 control the pawls 80 and to this end each pawl has an arm 92 extended therefrom and pivoted thereto, this arm having a laterally turned portion 93 lying over that end of the lever 86 opposite the end carrying the guide 85. Upon the raising of such end it'cooperates with the laterally turned portion 93 and shifts the pawl 80 out of cooperation with the adjacent ratchet wheel 7 0 or that ratchet wheel which operates the full spool, whereas the lever 86 which is arranged at the opposite side of the printing mechanism has its end which is pivoted to the link 89 lowered, ef-

Ziects the. lowering of the projection 93 on the armQQ so that the pawl 80 maybe thrown into engagement with the ratchet wheel 70 connected with theempty spool. In this way the ribbon shifts its direction of movement and is fed from the full spool to the empty spool until the latter becomes-again full when reversal again takes place.

The printing mechanism is closed by a casring or housing 100 which has an opening 101 through which :the indicating characters 60 and 60 on th'e'type wheels may be viewed in .order. to position any desired type 59 and 59 atthe printing point.

,In order that the record sheet may be properly fitted to the drum and the proper time space positioned at printing point, the

frame of the machine haslanindex or pointer -and the sheet has a series of characters '95 the same as the charactersl-Qexcept that their flTI$$I1g9HI8HtalSShlftBCl so that when any one character :in the series 95 is opposite the index (or pointer 94ra l1kecharacter 1n the series 12 willibe positioned at printing point.

In using the machine-the lever is shifted to the position illustrated in Fig. -6, thereby permittingthe printing cylinder to be disconnected from the timing mechanism so that the-printing cylinder may be turned in order to bring the clamp 14: at the top of the machine. The clamp is then unfastened and a record :sheet is fitted to :the cylinder. timingimechanism is adjusted so that it is at The a certain hour and thereafter the printing machine is :turned so that the hour as shown by the timing mechanism is opposite the index or pointer-9 lin the frame of the machine. The timing mechanism is now set at the proper time and with :its continuous rotation the drum turns. The workman,-as he starts onv the work, makes a record on the record sheet-of the 3 ob order andalso of his operation number. 'The job order-number is set up onthe-first four printing wheel-s, whereas the operation number is set up by the last three wheels. After or before the numbers are set up on the printing mechainsm, the workman shifts the printing mechanism longitudinally of the printing cylinderto the column'on the record sheet where his work is recorded and thendepresses the lever 40 throwin g -the printing mechanism -toward the cylinder. As the workmanlifts upwardly on theilever 36 in order to disengage the projection 37 from thenotch 38 in thellocking bar 39, the inking ribbon is advanced due to the fact that-aipawl 8O is'also shifted upwardly to turn a ratchet wheel 701and the spool to whichsaid-ratchet wheel-is connected. lVhen the end of'the ribbon is reached,the pawl which has been feeding the ratchet wheel 7 0.

is shifted away from said [ratchet wheel and the other pawl 80 .is permitted to engage the other ratchet wheel, this ;being eii'ected thronghtheshiftingof one ofthe levers 86 in tion number.

tive and non-productive work.

one direction through the ribbon .to s hiftvthe other lever 86 in the oppositedirectiomthe levers 86 controlling the pawls80 through the connections 91. The workman makes :a record of ajob order and operation number on the record sheet atthe starting ofan operationand in this way by findingv the difference in time between any job order and the .next

1 job order, the time consumed on the first 'job order can be ascertained. Itis desirable also to make a record of the quantity of the work and with this in view .after the workman has entered the job order and operation number, the quantity is set up on the printing mechanism. The workman then operates thefllever 30 to back space the printing cylinder after which a depression of the-lever 40 will cause the quantity to beimpressed upon the record sheet in advance of the job order andopera- After the quantity has been printed the lever is then released and the printing cylinder returns to its original po- .sition.

In order'that the productive work may be separated from the nonproductive work, the non-productive work is enteredin red ink, this beingeifected bygiving to the nonproductive work, numbers which end with an even number and to the productive work,

numbers which end with anzodd number.

W'henthe number is set up, the pawl 62 0f the printing wheel 57 will .entera notch v61 permitting the black or dark portions ofthe inking portion of the inking ribbon to lie opposite the printing point, whereas when even numbers .are set up 'the pawl 62* will enter one of the notchesfil shifting the ribbon guide 75 to throw the redportion of the ribbon opposite the printing point. This arrangement makes it possible to obtain a is done away withand a clearer andmore r legible record is obtained. The result of each days work, either productive or nonproductive, is daily ascertainable, thus giving-the production managerthe opportunity to correctany undesirable conditions the-following day.

What I .claim:as myinvention and desire to secure by Letters .Patent is:

1. A time recorder and work identifying machine comprising a record holder movable in one direction, a printing mechanism having relatively adjustable printing elements, each having a plurality of difierent characters thereon, so that by the different printing elements of the printing mechanism Work identifying expressions may be set up, a timing mechanism for moving the record holder relatively to the printing mechanism, means guiding one of the first two named elements to move in the direction transverse ly of the line of movement of the record holder by the timing mechanism, in order that the printing mechanism may print at different points on the record holder at any given time, the connection between the timing mechanism and the record holder embodying a cam moved by the timing mecha nism, a ratchet connected to the record holder, a lever moved by the cam, an advancing pawl carried by said lever, said ad vancing pawl being manually movable on the levervinto and out of cooperation with the ratchet wheel, and a back spacing pawl moved with the advancing pawl into 00- operation with the ratchet wheel to back space the record holder and to return the latter to its original position.

2. A time recorder and work identifying machine comprising a movable record holder, a printing mechanism having relatively adjustable printing elements, each having a plurality of different characters whereby Work identifying expressions may be set up, a timing mechanism for moving the record holder relatively to the printing mechanism comprising a pawl operative to move the record holder in a positive direction, and means for shifting the pawl to inoperative position and back spacing the record holder, means for guiding the printing mechanism transversely of the record holder to print at diiferent points thereon at any given time and in rear of said points where the record holder is moved to each spacing position. JOHN W. MARDER. 

